The International Youth Coalition Attends the UN Forum on Youth
The International Youth Coalition (IYc) attended the UN Economic and Social Council Forum on Youth on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The two day forum brought youth delegates and representatives from…
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U.S. Failing Int’l Leadership – A Warning for UN Disability Treaty
A new report card on global governance finds the U.S. has declined in leadership on nearly every area reviewed. This is bad news for Americans, and especially for advocates lobbying…
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Great news: Slovakia protects marriage through a constitutional amendment.
Today, Slovak MPs from SMER (Social-Democrats) and KDH (Christian-Democrats) voted to define marriage as a ‘unique bond between a man and a woman’ in the Constitution. Ruling party SMER agreed…
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ONE OF US and the European Union’s Problem with Democracy
It is rather late in the evening and I’m afraid I simply do not have the time tonight to write an in-depth commentary on the European Commission’s Soviet-style communication through…
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EU Commission: Definition of sexual and reproductive health is to be determined by individual member states
Earlier this month, Maltese European Parliament member Claudette Abela Baldacchino posed the following question to the European Union (EU) Commission, requesting a written answer: “The notion of sexual and reproductive…
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The EU after yesterday’s elections
Friends – especially those who remember the heated debates of the last months around the Estrela Report, the Lunacek Report = or the European Citizens’ Initiative ONE OF US –…
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Selective Reporting on Clergy Sex Abuse?
No one ever heard about the U.N. Committee Against Torture until today, when every media outlet decided to take note of the obscure U.N. panel of 10 experts because they…
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Vatican Puts Rogue U.N. Committee In Its Place
The Vatican highlighted positive aspects U.N. report from a committee that says the Pope is responsible for the conduct of every clergyman in the world. In a press release issued…
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Maternal Mortality & Abortion Advocacy: A Closing Window of Opportunity?
Ever since reducing maternal mortality was established as one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), abortion advocacy groups have been working hard to affix their own goals inextricably to…
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Why does the world still ignore 2.6M stillborn children every year?
Why are the nearly three million children who die on their birth day every year still ignored? This is the question posed by a report released today in the Lancet….
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Pacific Island Bishops Warn of “Outside” Abortion Pressure
Papua New Guinea is a deeply Christian country — as the prime minister’s Easter message beautifully and unashamedly conveys. This week, Christian leaders — clearly respected in Papua New Guinea…
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On Int’l Day of Family, U.S. Attacks Notion of ‘Male & Female’
Today is the International Day of the Family. The Holy See held a terrific event (more will be reported on that) with Catholic, Muslim and Jewish leaders. UN officials also…
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ECLJ at the UN: Abortion is torture and a violation of children’s rights
The ECLJ, in a report addressed today to the UN, denounces the killing of babies who survive abortion in theUnited Kingdom, within the context of the periodic review of theUnited…
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US Lawmakers, Abortion Groups use Nigerian Kidnapping for Political Gain
Last week US lawmakers used the Nigerian kidnapping crisis to introduce the latest version of the International Violence Against Women Act…
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UN Committee Equates Church’s Prohibition of Abortion with Torture
C-FAM’s Stefano Gennarini has a new article at First Things discussing the recent meeting in Geneva between the representative of the Holy See and the UN Committee Against Torture. During…
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Pope to U.N. Heads: Unborn Children are “Our Brothers and Sisters”
The Holy Father met today with the heads of U.N. agencies and the Secretary General as the U.N. system is gearing up for the next big thing: the post-2015 development…
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Amnesty International Can’t Have it Both Ways
The international community is outraged or it should be, in the abduction of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the militant Islamist group – Boko Haram. Missing now for three weeks,…
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Abortion Advocates Exploit Rape Victims For More Funding
More government funding is the goal and abortion groups know how to get it – exploit rape victims. American taxpayers now fund abortion for rape, incest and health exceptions in…
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The UN Special Rapporteur On Torture Called To Investigate On Children Born Alive After Late Abortion
In an “urgent appeal”, the ECLJ has called the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to investigate on children born alive after late abortion, and on methods of late abortion, especially…
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C-Fam: Does the Catholic Church Really Torture Women?
UN TORTURE COMMITTEE QUESTIONS HOLY SEE ON ABORTION AND BIRTH CONTROL Committee Suggests Sex Abuse Cases are Church-Sanctioned Torture Methods NEW YORK, May 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The UN Committee…
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Banning Moral Doctors: Is this where Sexual and Reproductive Rights Leads?
A British medical authority is disqualifying physicians who object to the morning-after pill – including the version taken 5 days-after — from certain certifications. This not only penalizes health providers…
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“One of Us” replies to Planned Parenthood
As we have reported on an earlier post on this blog, the successful European Citizens’ Initiative “ONE OF US” has been subject to highly aggressive criticism by certain “stakeholders” (i.e….
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Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” for the respect of human life: the European Commission must now respect democracy
Grégor Puppinck, Representative of the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” The European Commission (EU) must decide before May 28 on how it intends to take action concerning the request of…
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Stockholm Parliamentarians’ Meeting Follows Standard UNFPA Script
From April 23-25, a meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the 20-year review of the Cairo Programme of Action. Co-hosted by UNFPA, the European Parliamentary Forum on…
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